Re: /proc slows % echo /**/*/etc/r*(/N)

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2024-01-21 12:09, Juergen Christoffel wrote:
> The heretic's solution: locate might be your friend, as it already 
> built a
> database of pathnames:
>
> locate /etc/ | egrep -v '^/(proc|foo|bar|baz)'
Being by nature a masochistic purist, I'm trying to use zsh native code, 
and thanks to Mark and Bart I think this is figured out.  Strange 
lurking bug tho, it never showed up until I did a global search for 
'*/etc/r*'.

    eval "wholedisk=( $zsh_case/**/*$~1*(/N) )"

... served, tho of course it's filthy.  I'm still not quite sure why it 
doesn't like '/etc/r' but nevermind.  I now realize that my true friend 
the tilde (thanks Roman) is what was needed and if one is good, two are 
better:

    wholedisk=( $~zsh_case/**/*$~1*(/N) )

... so that gets me away from '/proc' and is just plain better code.